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In a previous lifetime we had a bigfoot camper on our '97 F350. Sounds fine right? Well it's a SRW 4x4 CC with a 9900 GVWR so you can imagine the payload capacity, and in retrospect I believe we were probably very close to overloaded just with that camper, even though if I recall it was only the 9.6 version and not the 10.6 so it only stuck out a bit in the back.
Wife also wanted to be able to tow our (her lol) 2.5 horses with that (a morgan, a poa and a shetland; maybe that's only about 2 horses total idk).
So we had a 3' extender.
All the above encouraged by the RV and trailer hitch people...
My recollection is that we only made at most one trip like that - possibly never towing.
Glad I know better now, and very glad nothing bad happened (I still have the truck and it's still great).
Personally I can't stand driving a truck with a camper on it and we got rid of it after not using it nearly enough. My preference is for "car camping" - bring a tent, put the crap in the back of the truck, cooking stove on a picnic table.
Wife also wanted to be able to tow our (her lol) 2.5 horses with that (a morgan, a poa and a shetland; maybe that's only about 2 horses total idk).
So we had a 3' extender.
All the above encouraged by the RV and trailer hitch people...
My recollection is that we only made at most one trip like that - possibly never towing.
Glad I know better now, and very glad nothing bad happened (I still have the truck and it's still great).
Personally I can't stand driving a truck with a camper on it and we got rid of it after not using it nearly enough. My preference is for "car camping" - bring a tent, put the crap in the back of the truck, cooking stove on a picnic table.